I mean, the answer is "because they were compressed to fit on a HD DVD", but you can still see this in the PC versions of games that came out in the seventh generation.

There's colour banding, crushed blacks and who knows what else going on with these things. PS2 cutscenes did not look as bad and they were in DVD quality.

I have to assume it wasn't this bad on the PS3. I mean, that's what the Blu Rays were for, right?

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That's a good point, unfortunately while I was able to convince my mom to buy a PS2 when we needed a DVD player, I was not able to convince her to buy a PS3 and we ended up getting a normal blu ray player like two years later.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'm old, so I already had an ok paying job and was living with flatmates when it came out and it was basically a way to save money on our home cinema setup.

      I realise it would be pretty unattainable as a christmas present for a kid or whatever. I definitely wasn't cheap, just good value.